long dated government bonds are being bought big time. the ten-year yield has now fallen eight straight sessions. last time that happened was in january of 2008. it smells a bit of fear. here's what's going on. stocks are telling a different story. stocks and bonds generally go in different directions. but the blue line is the s&p 500. we have been up, down, up again. the light green -- yellow, seahawks green, whatever you want to call it -- is the price of the ten-year fretreasury not. at the start of the year the two were going in opposite directions as we usually see. we had flare-ups. they started to converge, come back. we did what we normally do, diverged again. look at the far right, they are coming back together. people get scared, sell stocks and buy bonds. is that what's going on here? let's get rick santelli's take on it. rick? >> i think you nailed it. i think there is a bit of a water balloon metaphor or analogy to this as well. the federal reserve has a giant water balloon and they are trying to manage it. that represents al